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| Keywords: Workshop of Master of the Louis XII Triptych - Left Wing of a Triptych - Twelve Saints - Walters 44127.jpg On a black ground strewn with lines of gilt dots and interspersed with rosette-like ornaments are twelve medallions arranged vertically in five pairs and with single medallions at top and at bottom These are painted with half-length figures of saints confronting each other in the pairs The figures from top to bottom 1 St John the Evangelist seated with his eagle and holding a scroll inscribed AVE MARIA 2 St John the Baptist standing as are the following nine figures pointing to the lamb lying on the closed book which he holds in his left hand 3 St Peter pointing to the key he holds in his left hand 4 St Paul making a gesture of speech with his left hand and holding a sword in his right hand 5 St Andrew holding an open book and a saltire cross 6 St James the Greater holding a pilgrim's staff and wearing on his cap the badge of the pilgrims to Santiago of Compostela He reads an open book 7 St Stephen reading a book and holding a palm-leaf in his left hand On his head is a bleeding wound and one the stones of his martyrdom 8 St Sebastian his hands bound behind him his nude body wounded by arrows 9 St Cosmas in the dress of a doctor of the period holding a flask in his right hand 10 St Damien dressed like St Cosmas and bearing a scalpel in his right hand 11 St Denis decapitated and frontal but the mitred head he holds in his hands is turned towards the left in keeping with the general compositional scheme 12 The Evangelist St Luke seated with a book on his lap behind him is his emblem the ox early Other date century 16 enamels copper cm 19 4 7 5 accession number 44 127 5771 Lucien Cottreau Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Lucien Cottreau Collection Sale Paris April 28 1910 no 47 J Pierpont Morgan Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Exposition Universelle Paris 1900 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Master of the Louis XII Triptych Objects displayed at the Exposition Universelle 1900 Christian saints in art Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
